I’ll admit a love affair with quality, wool felt. It’s so forgiving, so easy to work with and much more durable than its polyester, craft project counterpart. Seemingly ages ago, I came across a tutorial from a book by Anne Kyyrö Quinn for making a “pillow with rosette clusters”, and vowed to make my own. When […]
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It turns out, we’ve got a thing for puns. Shocking news, I know. Our latest punny piece is an ode to the iconic furniture forms by the infamous design power-couple Charles and Ray Eames. We realize this one’s a bit more esoteric, and reveals our design-geek tendencies – not many people actually know that […]
A good friend recently turned 30; in honor of the milestone, he hosted an Irish wake for his dearly departed youth. There were flowers, a casket constructed of cardboard boxes, eulogies by friends sounding suspiciously like an old-fashion roast – and of course, barbeque. Naturally. I hinted at the special gift Jack was working on for […]
Over the weekend, Jack started working to theme the blog to match the rest of the site; though everything is up and running, we’re still tweaking the design. Please pardon our appearance for the next day or so as we work to restore the blog to its usual, handsome self!
Much like the Mother’s Day mum cards, we decided to make some punny pops cards in the knick of time for Father’s Day. The classic soda bottle silhouette was a much simpler concept than the pinpricked mum from the very beginning, and the process ended up being much quicker – which was good, since we […]
Coming soon: can I save this jacket with a bit of creativity and some TLC? Note the unfinished embroidery of my name on the back – this beauty dates back to my high school days, when I still went by “Katie” and (maybe?) that shade of denim was still acceptable. Before I give up entirely, […]
This post is admittedly a bit after-the-fact. We had grand plans of making elegant cards for all of the mothers in our lives – and then bit off more than we could chew in this project, and ended up making a watercolor version to send out instead. Though the watercolor cards were also lovely, and […]
A few weeks ago, I joined a team of 11 other women, none of whom I had known outside of our all going to the same gym, to run a 30-hour relay race from New Haven, CT back to Boston. We had a blast. When I returned home, I had a stenciled card waiting. I […]
This week has been a hectic one for Union Jack Creative, and we’re busily checking tasks of our “necessities” list. After navigating the warren that is Boston City Hall, we emerged with business certificate in hand and applied for a federal tax ID. In some ways, it’s been a bit shocking just how easy it […]
This pretty much sums up how we’re feeling about Union Jack Creative at the moment – we have no shortage of grandiose (and sometimes vague) plans, but last night saw us tackling a timeline and some concrete steps for moving forward. Over a bottle of wine and two giant bowls of salad, of course. Ultimately, […]